DOWN BEAT Chicago. April 15. 1941 Chicago fl by his latest cutting. Everything Depends On You, in which he spots Gems of Jazz’ and Kirby Madeline Green and a male vocal trio. On BBird 11036, it’s a side which shows a new Hines, a Hines who can bow to the public’s de­ Albarns Draw Big Raves; mands and yet maintain a high artistic plane. Backer is In Suiamp Lande, a juniper, with the leader’s I—Oh Le 88, Franz Jackson’s tenor and a »—New ' J. Dorsey, Earl Hines Also swell trombone showcased. Je Uy, 3—dmapi Jelly (BBird 11065) slow 4—Perfid by DAVE DEXTER, JR. blues with more sprightly Hines, 5—The A and a Pha Terrelish v ical by Bill 6—High I JvlUSICIANS SHOULD FIND the new “Gems of Jazz” and Eckstein. Flipover, I’m Falling 7—There' John Kirby albums of interest, for the two collections em­ For You, is the only really bad side of the four. It’s a draggy pop 9—Chapeí brace a little bit of everything in the jazz field. The “Gems” with too much Eckstein. [O—Th> l include 12 exceptional sides featuring Mildred Bailey, Jess 11—f Unti Stacy, Lux Lewis, Joe Marsala and Bud Freeman. Made in Jimmy Dorsey 12—Frenes 1936, they’ were issued only in England on Parlophone and Hot as a gang of ants on a have been unavailable domestically until now. warm rock, Jim and his gang click WATCH O again with two new Tudi« Cama Ma «mvng tl B a i 1 ey’s Berigan. Thornhill, Condon, Cole rata versions uf Yours (the old Man Behind the Counter in soda-jerk getup in that rat. |t*»y Go >dm sides are Hon­ and Moncur. Quiereme Mucho melody) and Lionel Hampton, who showed the fountain hoy* out at tbe Rite Hotel b»al» "Chap. All in all, an excellent collec­ When the Sun Come t Out, by the in Chi how thing« really should be done. His customer here is Count Millar, and "TI eysuckle Rose, Whím «nd Cl Willow Tree, tion. Peddles at $3.50. writers of Stormy Weather, which Ba-ie, who stopped in to have a snack on Lionel h couple of week* There are four records in the gives the Helen O’Connell girl a b, DOWN BE Squeeze Me John Kirby album, among them chance to do more than sit and ago. Hamp was right ut home in the jerk surrounding», as he u*«*d to and Down­ Double Talk, Bounce of the Sugar look pretty on a bandstand In mix ’em in drug «tore» in his home town. Io* Angele«, before he got hearted Blues. Plum Fairy, Rose Room, 20th fact, it is Helen’s best biscuit to into the jazz business only u few year* ago. Ray Rising clicked it. She gets su­ Century Closet, Serenade Sweet date, and almost all vocal. Jimmy Ricordi ido Georgia Brown, Then I’ll Be plays wonderfully on both sides. Lane and For Whom the Bell Tolk, hM or the foi perb backing Happy and Coquette. Well re­ another of those BBird 11067. . . . Dot Claire, Ray by Bunny Ber- Four new pash tunes are nut "ifoopori" in m Bailey corded. Kirby's small, precise, effi­ Eberly-O’Connell doubles. And fine particularly noteworthy except for Eberle and the Modernaires aU iag to informât igan, Teddy cient unit contrasts vividly with as usual. Except the danger of Helen Forrest’s singing, the Good­ pitch in sing A Little Old Any on* of the the more robust, hell for leather, overdoing that style is now’ loom­ Church in England (BBird 11069) Wilson, Johnny Hodges and man clarinet, and Benny’s new Thai HA evaa J- (bora. Op«ra»r pure-jam arrangements done by ing up to confront the band as it 5-man reed section, which gives the I« tya towa'd Grachan Moncur, bass. the bands in the “Gem” collection. emerges on the scene us America’s Dead and Gone. Frank Devol’i How Bunny’s talents have declined band a depth and tonal lieauty few Certainly Kyle’s Steinway top favorite. Decca 3657. other sections today achieve. Corn tasty jazz version of William Tell ART KAS! is apparent after the first listen­ ings, and Russell Procope’s alto Overture, by Alvino Rey’s combi­ winner m 4L ing, for on these he plays with a designs, stack up <>n a par with Silk is the weakest of the four; nation. takes two full sides on sureness and delicacy no longer it’s on the back of The Memory in the Chicag the piano-alto exhibitic i s of Wil- of a Rose. Birds of a Feather and BBird 11072- and that gutty clari­ make the “hi heard on his current discs. La son and Pete Brown. Kirby fans Skip these. Jerky, stilted treat­ net is by Skeets Hurfurt, . . , Bailey, too, has probably never re- ments of two dog tunes, Jungle You’re Dangerous are the others. «teal, Bluebit won’t be disappointed here, and Col. 35992; 35977. Pretty T. Dorsey trombone on Fox corded nettai form- the ma most musicians, too, will find plen­ Drums and Donkey Serenade, with Lucky People and You’re Danger, MILDRED terial (Willou definitely is one of ty of interest in Kirby’i suave and Rocco’? loud mouth and corny yell­ ous. . . . Johnny Long does ■ Cow io Bail her greatest performances of all “clean” exhibitions. Co’.umbia has ing interfering with unimpressive hut rates no raves for his le<, coatraet. Acc< time) being ideally suited to her the Kirby album; Decca the piano get-offs. Rocco’f. earlier Received at the last minute are dentally on Purpose an,. WaUM for location*, timid, fragile, but compelling und “Gems.” It’s hard to go wrong on Tonky Blues is much superior. a batch of new albums, among By the River, two BMI husta. •he'« ever don appealing style. Other discs in the either. Decca 8533. them a Columbia package titled Blame the material, not the band. “Gems” album: “Hot Trombones ” representing . . . Chu Berry’s tenor, Dizzy MARH Gl World is Waiting for the Sun­ Earl Hines Mildred Bailey discs by (he late Jimmie Harrison, Gillespie’s trumpet and a fine heat blown Mis« rise Jess Stacy piano solo; Hanky Reco.d collector.- of the Hoefer- Benny Murton, Jack Teagarden, —watch out, Basie—feature Cab petty tune I Mildred’s initial try on Decca is ii foot catchin Tonk Train Blue», Lux Lewis pi­ Love-Williams school won’t like it, far cry from her work with Miff Mole, Floyd O’Brien and Jay Calloway’s Bye Bye Blues. The ano solo; Twelve Bar Stampede, but the Fatha’ of 1941 is seeking C. Higginbotham. Titles are Dee mate, Run Little Raobit, is too Look*- like a i Norvo and even more recently, the Cuv Lombard Feather Bed Lament, Joe Marsala something, on wax, w’hich he never woodwind group with Ed Sauter Blues, Bugle Call Rag und Got much Too much Calloway vocal with Benny Carter, Pete Brown, achieved before. That means he Another Sweetie Now, Harrison Jive by Slim Gaillard is titled Ary’rn not a arrangements. Titles When and the old Chocolate Dandies; Bill Kyle, Bobby Hackett, Cosy wants a hit record Boogie on St. that Man is Dead and Gone, an Put Your Arms Around Me, a JIMMY 1MJ Cole and Hayes Alvis; Tillie’s Louis Blues, which most critics Tennessee Twilight, O’Brien with pretty tune which might go far if Downtown Now, The Buzzard, panned, is the biggest selling Hines Irving Berlin slap at Hitler which Eddie Condon’s gang; Makin’ exploited smartly, on ! Hey Chief, Mnr dmaptrla ranks with the poorest penning ««eal, in Von What is There to Say, Keep record in history. Berlin ha« done, an«' Jenny, the Friends, Teagarden with Whoopee on Okeh. The piano is especially Smiling at Trouble, Freeman with It may be surpassed, however, Gertrude Lawrence* click in Lady Makers; Original Dixieland Onc- noteworthy. Rie Bill shouts a Step, Miff Mole; Higginbotham healthy line on I'll Never Dream In the Dark. Not suited to her old Blues, by J C , and Gold Diggers Again and That Number of Mine, Record style, Mildred plays smart and Song, by Morton with an all-star with guitar and bass on Okeh. (Jumped changes style with a vocal «luartet, pickup group. Excellent sliphorn Really righteous, crude und thoe i man who I the Delta Rhythm Boys, helping. examples here despite hoary en- mghly refreshing blues singing by Helen Forres Hot stuff for the iuke-boxes. Decca sembles. Merton Gould, one of poor, or even 3661. the more promising American (Modulate to Page 15) «ork on It’s composers, pianists and conduc­ i&k* People Tim« hasn't mellowed the voice tors, is staired in a Decca collec­ ■an on Coin of Billie. And even with a Benny tion of Gould piano bon-bons, Mor­ tell the disc Carter pickup group behind her, ton pounding out in his delicate Best Bets On frown, man - Billie’s St. Louis Blurs and Lovt- but unusual style eight of his own dmys-improi SAXOPHONES EXCLUSIVELY less Love are not in the same class original». .. . Victor’s long-awaited The New Bises hit fast trail । ivith the 1936-37 series of discs and much-exploited album of mu­ Wooglu Pig( she made with Teddy Wilson. Bil­ sic from NBC’s Chamber Music Vocal: Mildred Bailey on 9al­ Intk. On Oke! lie’s still one of the few fems who Society of Lower Basin Street low Tree and Downhearted Bluet; Young Les know« what she’s doing, though, show’s Sidnej Bechet, Dinah Helen O'Connell, When the Sm which is real and Okeh 6064 is typical of her Shore, Paul Laval’s woodwinds Conies Out; Big Bill, Til Never Us Amapola 1941 style. As such, it is recom­ und Henry Levine'* 2-beat gang on Dream igain Doris Day se mended. a brace of standards worth hear­ Piano: Furl Hine* on Jelly, on Okeh 6062. Will Bradley ing—and a commentary by Wel­ Jelly; Jees Stacy, World is Hcl in line with < born Kelly (who scripts the pro­ ing for the Sunrite; Teddy Wil- "comeback” c Boogie Woogie Conga isn’t really gram for NBC) rich in humor. «on, Squeese Me; Bill Kyle, Giorgia Brow a boogie at all, but few bands Levine, buried in the studios, plays Sweet Georgia Brown, Feather Old Mill Str» could turn in so satisfying a job a mess of fine trumpet worthy of Bed Lament. Charlie Spivi as Bradley's does with Ray Mc­ billing with any of the jazz crews Trumpet: Charlie Shavers, worth, on Ok« Kinley’s humorous vocal selling of th< day Saxophonists owe Rose Room ; Bunny Berigan Oown Bud a the side for more than it’s worth. it tc themselves to hear Cecil Lee- (obbligato) ii Downhearted two instrurnen Flipover is a pop sung well by Hon’» album of Sonata for E-Flat Blue»; Benny Carter. «1 promisinp Terry Allen. I Need Somebody to Alto Sax. Josef Wagner at the Bed Lament, ■hieh will hip Love. Col. 35994. piano, in Decca 12-mch album No. Sax: Bud Freeman, Keep these two tc । 187. The Edvard Moritz composi­ Smiling al Trouble; Pele Brown. Muh. . . Ra PETER A. LUISETTI Count Basie tion may prove controversial; at I2-Bar Stampede; Rum Proeope, yu Star ai least Leeson plays it well from a Coquette; Johnny Hodge* (>'» Noted Teacher and Metronome Columnist Tab Smith’s sprightly alto sax crwnn Tough makes Undecided Blues a winner. technical standpoint The piano is Iro) Willow Tree; Bud Johnson, ®*t phony F Jimmy Rushing sings a better vo­ recorded better than his alto, how- Everything Depends On F<*. Stott» little Thousands of reed players follow cal than he has been turning out ever. Franz Jackson, Swamp land»; 1 band hi Peter A. Luisetti's instructive col­ ■ f late despite a cold which bothers Jimmy Dorsey, Fours. *ft nionths. umn in Metronome each month. the bulky shouter not in the least. kr sticks out. Advanced saxophonists come to Probably because he composed the Pitching the Needle Here and Jh needlings blues himself. Coupling is a There: Earthy blues, with a piano, N.Y. Music School «rased ensem New York especially to study with Skippy Martin tune and arrange­ by Pigmeat Terry on Decca 7829, ®d which co: this recognized authority on tone, ment, T tesday at Ten, «with more Moaning the Blues and Black This I embouchure and technique. fine Smith alto. Basie himself has Sheep Blues. Pashy, eommer- Offers Jazz Coarse «ndncingly a again. That “Pete” Luisetti uses the never played better. But the re­ cial sides by Tony Pastor, but well New York — A course in jW cording is not good. Okeh 6071. done at that. Number 10 Lullaby appreciation, consisting of L Dick Stabile alto and tenor saxes weekly lectures by Ralph Berta, exclusively recommends these WYNC commentator, has hea instruments to his pupils ... should help to decide in favor of a Musk* School on East 12th stred you here. lectures will take place Sat­ Dick Stabile saxophone. Why not urday afternoons. 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